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Use "xoanon" in a sentence
"The image borne in procession was clearly the xoanon which was brought by Pegasus from"
"Pausanias tells us [151] that the xoanon brought from Eleutherae was in one of the two temples in the theatre-precinct, while the other contained the chryselephantine statue of Alcamenes."
"Pausanias 'use of the plural in τεταγμέναις ημέραις is excellent authority that the temple of the xoanon was opened at least on more than one day of every year."